Brass musicians and folk dancers parading in front of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia

INDEPENDENT CULTURAL FOUNDATION · BULGARIA

ART THAT CONNECTS.CULTURE THAT ENDURES.

Creative Resilience Foundation creates and supports cultural projects that preserve living heritage, give it contemporary relevance, and build bridges between artists, audiences and cultures.

CREATIVE RESILIENCE FOUNDATION

AN INDEPENDENT PLATFORM FOR ART, CULTURE AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE.

Creative Resilience Foundation is a nonprofit organisation established to advance arts and culture, preserve and present cultural heritage, and create new spaces where artists, audiences and cultures can meet.

We believe cultural heritage is not a static archive.

It remains alive when it is performed, experienced, reinterpreted and passed on.

This is why we develop projects that connect tradition with contemporary culture, public space and international dialogue.

TO PRESERVE.TO CREATE.TO CONNECT.

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CULTURAL HERITAGE

Preserving, presenting and reinterpreting tangible and intangible cultural heritage for contemporary audiences.

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ART AND CREATIVITY

Creating and supporting music, visual, performing and interdisciplinary cultural projects.

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INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE

Connecting artists, organisations, institutions and audiences across Bulgaria, Europe and beyond.

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CULTURE IN PUBLIC SPACE

Festivals, public events, workshops and artistic interventions in which audiences become active participants.

Sisyphus pushes a sphere of art and culture — sculpture, music, painting and theatre — toward a hilltop sanctuary

CULTURE IS NOT ONLY SOMETHING WE WATCH.IT IS SOMETHING WE TAKE PART IN.

We work on cultural formats that transform audiences from observers into participants.

Music.Dance.Art.Craft.Public space.Workshops.International encounters.Education.Communities.

Our aim is to bring traditional cultural forms to new generations and new audiences without losing their connection to their origins.

PROJECTS

Every foundation project begins with a cultural idea and becomes a real encounter between artists, audiences, place and community.

Bulgarian and Serbian brass musicians in musical dialogue

In development · 2026

FEATURED PROJECT

BALKAN ETHNO FEST SOFIA

MUSICINTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGEBALKANSCRAFTDANCEBALKAN CULTURE

An international cultural festival in Sofia, inspired by the Guča tradition, bringing musicians, brass bands, folk ensembles and ethno artists from across the Balkan region onto one stage — together with crafts, workshops, Balkan food and active audience participation.

CULTURE IS CREATED TOGETHER.

We seek long-term partnerships with institutions, artists, cultural organisations and companies that share our belief in culture's public value.